Search Results - "Pontieri, Francesco E."
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Step-Counting Accuracy of a Commercial Smartwatch in Mild-to-Moderate PD Patients and Effect of Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters, Laterality of Symptoms, Pharmacological State, and Clinical Variables
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (25-12-2022)“…Commercial smartwatches could be useful for step counting and monitoring ambulatory activity. However, in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, an altered gait,…”
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Cognitive dual-task cost depends on the complexity of the cognitive task, but not on age and disease
Published in Frontiers in neurology (03-10-2022)“…Introduction Dual-tasking (DT) while walking is common in daily life and can affect both gait and cognitive performance depending on age, attention…”
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Caregiver burden and its related factors in advanced Parkinson’s disease: data from the PREDICT study
Published in Journal of neurology (01-05-2018)“…Introduction Caring for a person with Parkinson’s disease (PD) is associated with an increased risk of psychiatric morbidity and persistent distress. The…”
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Four Days Are Enough to Provide a Reliable Daily Step Count in Mild to Moderate Parkinson’s Disease through a Commercial Smartwatch
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (04-11-2023)“…Daily steps could be a valuable indicator of real-world ambulation in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Nonetheless, no study to date has investigated the minimum…”
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Urinary retention discriminates multiple system atrophy from Parkinson's disease
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Feasibility, Safety, and Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation in Mild-to-Moderate Parkinson's Disease
Published in Frontiers in neurology (16-06-2022)“…Introduction Parkinson's disease (PD) patients frequently engage in rehabilitation to ameliorate symptoms. During the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)…”
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Drug Choices and Advancements for Managing Depression in Parkinson's Disease
Published in Current neuropharmacology (01-01-2020)“…Depression is a frequent non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), and may even precede the onset of motor symptoms of parkinsonism. Beyond its negative…”
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Neuropsychiatric and cognitive symptoms and body side of onset of parkinsonism in unmedicated Parkinson's disease patients
Published in Parkinsonism & related disorders (01-09-2015)“…Abstract Introduction The onset of motor symptoms is primarily unilateral in the majority of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. Because of the lateralization…”
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Neuropsychiatric and cognitive profile of early Richardson's syndrome, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy-parkinsonism and Parkinson's disease
Published in Parkinsonism & related disorders (01-12-2017)“…The two main variants of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), Richardson's syndrome (PSP-RS) and PSP-parkinsonism (PSP-P), share motor and non-motor features…”
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The Dopaminergic System in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes: From Physiology to Pharmacology and Potential Applications to Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Published in Current neuropharmacology (01-06-2011)“…Besides its action on the nervous system, dopamine (DA) plays a role on neural-immune interactions. Here we review the current evidence on the dopaminergic…”
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The tolerability, safety and efficacy of safinamide in elderly Parkinson’s disease patients: a retrospective study
Published in Aging clinical and experimental research (01-06-2021)“…Safinamide (SF) is a third-generation monoamine-oxidase-B inhibitor that proved efficacy as add-on to levodopa in fluctuating Parkinson’s disease (PD)…”
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Cerebral autoregulation and white matter lesions in Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy
Published in Parkinsonism & related disorders (01-12-2015)“…Abstract Cerebral autoregulation is a complex homeostatic process which ensures constant brain blood supply, despite continuous blood pressure fluctuations…”
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The Story behind the Mask: A Narrative Review on Hypomimia in Parkinson's Disease
Published in Brain sciences (01-01-2024)“…Facial movements are crucial for social and emotional interaction and well-being. Reduced facial expressions (i.e., hypomimia) is a common feature in patients…”
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Immune System and Neuroinflammation in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease: Association Analysis of Genetic Variants and miRNAs Interactions
Published in Frontiers in genetics (03-06-2021)“…The present study investigated the association of SNPs involved in the regulation of immune response, cellular degenerative and neuroinflammatory pathways with…”
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The recognition of facial emotion expressions in Parkinson's disease
Published in European neuropsychopharmacology (01-11-2008)“…Abstract A limited number of studies in Parkinson's Disease (PD) suggest a disturbance of recognition of facial emotion expressions. In particular, disgust…”
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Action Observation With Dual Task for Improving Cognitive Abilities in Parkinson's Disease: A Pilot Study
Published in Frontiers in systems neuroscience (11-02-2019)“…Action observation therapy (AOT) has been recently proposed as a new rehabilitation approach for treatment of motor deficits in Parkinson's disease. To date,…”
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Detecting nocturnal hypertension in Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy: proposal of a decision-support algorithm
Published in Journal of neurology (01-07-2014)“…A pathological nocturnal blood pressure (BP) profile, either non-dipping or reverse dipping, occurs in more than 50 % of subjects diagnosed with multiple…”
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The TANDEM investigation: efficacy and tolerability of levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel in (LCIG) advanced Parkinson’s disease patients
Published in Journal of Neural Transmission (01-06-2020)“…The TANDEM investigation was carried out in 17 Italian Movement Disorder centers on behalf of a joint initiative of neurologist members of the Italian Academy…”
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Blood dendritic cell frequency declines in idiopathic Parkinson's disease and is associated with motor symptom severity
Published in PloS one (11-06-2013)“…The role of inflammation in Parkinson's Disease (PD) is well appreciated, but its underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Our objective was to determine…”
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Non-motor symptoms in atypical and secondary parkinsonism: the PRIAMO study
Published in Journal of neurology (01-01-2010)“…The PRIAMO study is a cross-sectional longitudinal observational study aimed at describing epidemiology and evolution of non-motor symptoms (NMS) in patients…”
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